Kategoriearchiv: Praxisberichte, Beispiele, Best-Practice

Wir freuen uns unsere Serie der Steckbriefe über CoWorking Spaces im deutschsprachigen Raum fortsetzen zu können. Mit dem Modul 57 in Hannover stellt sich ein Space vor, der in der besonders glücklichen Lage ist, von einem großen Touristikunternehmen, der TUI Gruppe, unterstützt zu werden: Bitte beschreibt Euch kurz. Wie kam es zu MODUL 57, was […]

Currently I see two very important developments in coworking. One is the increase in collaboration between coworkers for example in the jelly coworking mode (example Jellyweek). Secondly I see more collaborations between spaces and coworking operators like in Prague and Seattle ( as described in this article below). Both developments use „Free Coworking“ and help to […]

Starting on the 24th of February 2012, Next Space Santa Cruz is offering a monthly „Free Coworking“ community day: „This is our community coworking day, when we invite the greater Santa Cruz community to come in and cowork with us for free from 9-5. It’s a great time to meet the awesome people who make […]

Sarah Cox, Coworking Space Operations Manager of Cospace in Austin Texas went to visit Gangplank in Chandler, Arizona. Here is what she experienced: „ I visited Gangplank on Friday [10th of February 2012] since my husband and I were travelling and both needed somewhere to work. And holy [… ;-)] : it is amazing. One thing […]

Only 5 weeks after starting the „Free Coworking“ Campaign we are very happy to present the first „Free Coworking Directory„. Thanks to your support and many contributions we can add this very valuable tool to our „Free Coworking Resource“ page. Similar to our „Free Coworking Skill Sharing„, the „Free Coworking Directory“ consists of an Input […]

Many people think that „Free Coworking“ is just an idea. No!!! There are already places that offer „Free Coworking“!!! One of them is Gangplank in Chandler (Arizona). One very important contributor to finance „Gangplank“ is the council of Chandler: „Gangplank is a meeting place available to anyone interested in working in an environment that fosters […]

To spark a few emotions at the beginning, I like to look at the currently largest social network „Facebook“. By closer examination you find out, that it is already run to a large extent by the users. The obvious one: Content. I guess no discussion on that one.  Another example: Support. According to a german […]

Sometimes everything looks great when you look at a building. A wonderful concept. Excellent ideas. An extremely unusual construction, but for some reason one gets the impression that something did not quite connect in the end. Where is the community? How do people use the building in practice? As I have no inside information, I can […]

In his TEDx talk in November 2009 Michel Bauwens made some very interesting observations about peer to peer production. He points to the fact that when people create something in common, they create their own infrastructure.  On the other hand when people link to share their expression they tend to use a corporate infrastructure like […]

Today Anni Roolf and Willi Schroll published the Jellyweek Manual for the Jellyweek 2012, that takes place from the 16th to the 22nd of January.  In the manual you find the listing of all the jellies. To get an idea of where the jellies are, it is very nice to refer to the Jelly Map. Also […]